Improvement in car-couplings



G. TROUPE. Car-Coupling.

No. 223,079. Patented Dec. 30;1879.

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CHARLES TROUPE, OF LITTLE VALLEY, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-COUPLINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,079, dated December 30, 1879; application filed November 20, 1879.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, CHARLES TnoUPE, of Little Valley, in the county of Olmsted and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gar'Couplings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in car-couplers; and it consists in a coupling-hook, constructed to be pivoted in the draw-bar, and having a shoulder and pin projecting from its inner side, all of which will be more fully hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of two cars having my invention attached. Fig. 2 is a plan. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a draw-head having my coupling-hook applied thereto; and Fig. 4 is one of the coupling-hooks.

The draw-bars and coupling device, according to my invention, are all made alike, and a description of one answers for all.

a is a draw-bar. Its forward end is beveled so as to form an inclined plane for the coupling-hook to slide upon. In its upper side is formed a longitudinal recess or mortise, a, the sides ofwhich are provided with longitudinal slots or guides, (R, in which the axial pin which holds the coupling-hook to the draw-head slides. It is also provided with a shoulder, a projecting upward from it at right angles to its longitudinal direction, over which the coupling-hook of the opposite car catches to effect the coupling of the cars.

I) is the coupling link or bar. Upon its under side and near its rear end is alug, 1), projecting into the mortise a, where it is held by a pin, b passing through it into the slots or guides "a b is a spring arranged in the mortise a, under the rear end of the coupling-hook b, so as to keep it in its hold when drawing the car. I) is also a spring adjusted between the front the cars are started.

The slots a allow the necessary longitudinal play of the coupling link or bar. The outer end of the said coupling-bar isbeveled, so as to the more readily slide up the incline of the draw-head, and is also provided with a hook or catch, 12 to drop over the shoulder a of the opposite car in coupling.

0 is a shoulder projecting laterally from the inner side of the coupling-hook, under which the pin hereinafter mentioned slides, and upon which it lifts in uncoupling the cars.

at is a pin projecting laterally from the shoulder c or from the ihner side of the coup ling-hook, when so desired, and extends to and under the shoulder of the opposite couplinghook belonging to the next car to the depth of the said shoulder, but no farther, so that it may readily escape the catch b when the cars are uncoupled and separate.

6 is a lift attached to the coupling-hook,

lifts the other and effectually uncouples the pin 0 and bumper-spring 11 all arranged to.

operate substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination with the coupling-bars I), having hooks b 12 and side flanges, c, and

pivot-ed on the draw-bars a a, having"- shonl- In testimony that I claim; the'foregorng I ders 6?, of thepins 01, each pin having one 'have'herenntoset'my hand this "3d day of N 0- end fixed to a bar, I), While its other end provenlber 187 9.

jects laterally under the flange c on the other GH'ARLES TROUPE.

bar, and the necessary levers or mechanism Witnesses:

for lifting said coupling-bars, substantially as WM. TEAGHANT,

and for the purposes set forth. HJP. WILLSON. 

